A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON JHUMPA LAHIRI’S WOMEN IN the “INTERPRETER OF MALADIES”
A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON JHUMPA LAHIRI’S WOMEN IN the “INTERPRETER OF MALADIES” by Suparna Sinha ABSTRACT The objective of this paper is to analyze some of the women characters of Jhumpa Lahiri’s book, “Interpreter of Maladies” and infer whether her stories could also be termed as feminist literature. The trials and tribulations of the female diaspora some of who left their own country due to marriage or Partition, have been carefully examined in this article, and compared with the tenets of Feminism as outlined in Mary Wollstonecraft's `A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’. A humble attempt has been made to study the characterization of seven female characters of seven stories of the book. The women are diverse in age, education, financial status, marital status, country of origin and attitude. They are immigrants in Boston, like Mrs. Sen in “Mrs. Sen’s” and Mala in “The Third and Final Continent”, first generation immigrants like Mina in “Interpreter of Maladies” an...